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For the pilot to become a flight instructor to teach harrison to fly and theyve had a lifelong friendship ever since and fly there routinely and theyre close pals. >> its also amazing to me that hes taken part in search and rescue operations in wyoming where he has a house, as many people do in that region who are certified to fly, but that hes you know been actively engaged in search and rescue operations. >> yeah. and he has. hes also he flew one of his airplanes to haiti after the earthquake ...

An unpowered landing, brought it down. pretty good piloting. >> and hes probably thanking his lucky stars in the hospital right now. this isnt if tirs aviation related incident for ford. in 1999 he had to make an emergency landing in a california river bed while flying in a held continuer with a flight instructor. now to another close call a scary landing at new yorks laguardia airport. thursday the plane skidded off the runway and stopped just short of disaster. >> its a terrifying image for ...

Flaps, landing gear is deployed and they should be fully stabilized for the approach. the problem is with any tail wind, even if its 5 or 10 miles per hour, which seems little it increases the ground speed xpoen ent shally. >> 131 passengers and crew on the plane all have been evaluated, one transported to the hospital at this time with minor injuries just one person. from what youre seeing and what we know so far, were waiting for the port authority to give us a 1:30 update a press briefing. in...

Plane just banked off the runway or crashed or had an incident then its going to be up to people on the ground other pilots or as you can see the fire crash personnel on the scene to say weve got a problem. >> we know the weather at the time of the skid was snow and freezing fog, a quarter mile visibility and winds coming in north at 9 miles per hour. ill ask you to stand by were waiting for the port authority to give us a briefing coming up at 1:30. anthony roman is a licensed commercial pilot ...

Arrested. that is one clumsy criminal. 9,000 feet above australia, a skydiver suffering a seizure and the daring attempt to rescue him. horrifying. skydiver christopher jones loses consciousness and suddenly has a seizure 9,000 feet in the air. moments before, the 25-year-old jumping out of the plane at 12,000 feet. but, for jones, this routine training dive is anything but routine. for 30 terrifying seconds, he plummets toward the ground falling atmore than 100 miles per hour. he falls furthe...

So this blows off? >> that blows off. >> reporter: what happens? >> theres a red handle youws o pull. it triggers a rocket which shoots out the back and launche oc parashoot. >> reporter: off hawaii, the parachute delivered both pilot and plane safely to the ocean. the pilot climbed onto an emergency raft and was soon picked up by the crew of a 51 nearby holland american cruise ship. cirrus says its parachutes have been used 51 times in the pastoing to 15 years, saving 104 people. its going to b...

Tonight. thank you, don. we learned today about amazing weather that enveloped the airasia jetliner that crashed a week ago. 162 people died when the airbus a320 plunged into the java sea. we were so surprised by the temperature that authorities reported today that we asked our research department to double check to make sure it was right. allen pizzey is covering the crash in indonesia. >> reporter: 23-year-old pendra gunawan syawal took what may have been the last photograph of flight 8501 bef...

Commercial pilot and a flight instructor and was killed along with his wife kimberly the 9-year-old sister and 14-year-old cousin. he reported engine trouble and then last contact with traffic controllers around 5:55 friday. reporters tried to direct him to an airport just a few miles way from the crash scene. she made it through nearly a mile of thick brush in the dark wearing light clothing before she found a house with a porch light on knocked on the door. she was bloody and in tears, asking ...

Theres a lot happening. lets get right to it. our lead story this hour. >> this morning officials are hoping improved weather conditions will help the recovery efforts for airasia flight 8501. the head of indonesias search and rescue agency says the focus is on underwater detection. ships from indonesia, malaysia, singapore and the united states are using high tech equipment to search the java sea for wreckage from the jet. several planes are searching the area but one of indonesias air safety i...

Today. there is a team on site with sophisticated equipment to drop into the water. they used it to help locate other aircraft. it was part of the team that looked for the black boxes from the air france flight 447 a few years back. the question is when can you actually use this equipment? the weather once again is really hampering their search efforts. so far theres been no sign no pings from black boxes at all. theyre hoping optimistic that they can find them within a week but again the weathe...